Distyl AI
AI Engineer, Lead
$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including experience as a tech lead or engineering lead on customer-facing or production AI projects.
About the job
Leads the design, delivery, and improvement of production AI systems for enterprise customers, combining technical leadership with customer collaboration and accountability for production outcomes.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor AI Engineers, setting technical direction, code quality, and execution standards.
- Design, integrate, operate, and improve production AI systems, including models, agents, retrieval, and evaluation.
- Work with customer stakeholders to communicate system behavior and tradeoffs and deliver business outcomes.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including tech lead or engineering lead experience on customer-facing or production AI projects.
- Experience leading engineers through technical decisions, execution, mentorship, and delivery; management experience is not required.
- Strong solutions architecture fundamentals, including cloud systems, system integrations, API design, and data engineering.
- Daily use of AI tools for coding, debugging, design exploration, data analysis, or automation.
Pay
$200-$250K USD base salary
Tools
AI systems, models, agents, retrieval, evaluation, APIs
AI focus
Build and operate production AI systems for enterprise workflows, including system architecture, evaluation, integration, reliability, and iteration.
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